Drilling, reaming, and centering machine.



S. W. T'RAYLOR.

DRILLING, REAIVIING, AND CENTERING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 27. I915- LQQLMK Patented Apr. 3, 1917.v

-r rrre DRILLING, REAMING, AND CENTERING MACHINE.

Application filed November 27,1915.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL W. TRAYLon, citizen of the United. States,residing at Allentown, Pennsylvania, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Drilling, Beaming, and Centering Machines, ofwhich the following is a specification.

My invention relates to drilling, reaming and centering machines, andconcerns particularly the construction of a tool for use in suchmachines whereby the operation of drilling, rough reaming, and finishingreaming may be performed at one continuous operation.

In making certain classes of articles like war munitions, in whichshells are bored from a solid bar, it has been the practice to firstdrill an opening in the piece out of which the shell is to be made, thisdrilling operation being performed in one machine, after which the pieceis taken to a lathe and the opening formed by the twist drill is roughreamed to a larger size. The piece is then placed in another lathe andsubjected to the action of a finishing reamer. By the use of myinvention these various operations are performed in the same machine andby the same tool.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in whichFigure 1 represents a chuck and a portion of the boring head of ahorizontal drill press or reamer, the tool being shown in place;

Fig. 2 is a side view of the tool detached;

Fig. 8 is an edge View of the tool;

Fig. 4 shows in elevation the front edge of the tool.

In these drawings, the chuck is shown at 1, this being of ordinary formadapted to hold the work piece indicated at 2 from which the shell is tobe made. 3 indicates a portion of the boring head carrying the boringbar 4 to the end of which is attached the combined boring and reamingtool constituting the main feature of my invention. The chuck is rotatedto rotate the work piece and the boring bar is advanced to act on thework piece in any ordinary manner. As before stated, under presentpractice the work piece would be subjected to the action of a twistdrill, which would form an opening therein say one and five-eighthinches in diameter, the work piece would then be put in a lathe, and areamer run into the one and fiveeighth inch opening, and this would reamSpecification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 3, 1917.

Serial No. 63,839.

out the opening to a size of, say, one and thirteen-sixteenth inches,after which the work piece would be removed and placed in another lathe,where a finishing reamer consisting of a flat bit is run into the shellat extra low speed, say, about thirty revolutions a minute, requiringabout six minutes to finish the shell through a distance of eight andthree-fourth inches. My improved bit or tool consists of a broad, flatmember having its end formed on two inclines meeting at the longitudinalaxis of the member, thus providing cutting or drilling edges at 6. Inrear of these cutting or drilling edges the tool is provided withinclined side edges at 7, these diverging slightly from each othertoward the rear of the tool, and merging into the parallel edges 8,these latter edges extending to the rear of the tool. The slightlyinclined side edges 7 are for reaming out the opening formed by thedrilling or cutting edges 6 at the end of the tool, and the paralleledges 8 serve to finish the reaming out of the opening formed by thereaming edges 7 these latter edges performing a rough reaming operationwhich is i1nmedi ately followed by the finishing reaming operationperformed by the parallel edges. This tool may be secured to the boringbar in any suitable way, such as by bolts passing through the openings9. With my improvement the entire work of drilling rough reaming andfinishing reaming is done by the tool described, and the entireoperation can be performed in five minutes. A smooth in terior wall isformed by this tool while the shell may be rotated at a speed of twohundred revolutions per minute. The improvement not only saves a largeamount of time, but dispenses with ,a number of different tools, and theconsequent attention in handling them.

I claim as my invention 1. The combined drilling and reaming toolconsisting of a fiat piece having a V-shaped end providing converginginclined drilling or cutting edges, said piece in rear of said drillingor cutting edges having inclined side edges diverging from each other,said inclined side edges merging at a low angle into parallel edges, thesaid low angle diverging inclined edges and the parallel edges servingas reaming means, substantially as described.

2. A combined drilling and reaming tool having inclined cutting edgesmeeting at a slightly inclined in respect to the parallel 10 point atthe longitudinal axial line of the reaming edges, substantially asdescribed.

tool, parallel finishing reaming edges in rear In testimony whereof, IafliX my signature of the inclined, Cutting edges and lying in inpresence of tWo Witnesses.

5 planes slightly out beyond points of termination of the inclinedcutting edges and rough V SAMUEL TRAYLOR' reaming edges lyingintermediate the paral- V VVitne-sses: 'lel reaming edges and inclinedcutting edges, ELLA M. SNYDER,

said intermediate roughing edges being only F. R. CUsPnN.

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